A Jersey Guy says Mike Aresco is the new commissioner.

[BaltoBull]

A wonder if true, if bringing in the CBS Sports vice-president will help the NBE.

Hasn't CBS Sports been dinging us and our potential TV contract as of late?

http://ajerseyguy.com/?p=550

[Skingraft]

Great hire.... This, beyond a shadow of a doubt, show you that rivalries, history, legacy does not mean SHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT......... It is about TV contracts, broadcast rights, and revenue....

That being said, he better help get us paid

[hm101]

Anyone have any info or analysis on this choice? Who is he and what can he do for us?

EDIT: Got his bio

Edited August 14, 2012 by hm101

[NAM37]

Looks like a good hire (from the little info I've seen).

[Vroomy]

The bio says his son formerly worked at versus (now known as NBC Sports Network). It's probably nothing, but him knowing the right people and already being a big shot in the television industry definitely couldn't hurt.

I'll reserve judgement until I hear more about him, but between this and the consultants they brought in, I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.

Edited August 14, 2012 by Vroomy

[slbpsi63]

This guy has connections in every major conference. He can use the business partnerships he has formed over the past 30 years to help improve our image. I like this hire.

[Joe]

While I think he could help with the TV deal, I am looking more towards what he can do in making sure we stay relevant in the new postseason that starts come 2014. This guy seems to be a good hire when it comes to that.

[hm101]

Responsible for all college programming on CBS, essentially. That is huge in terms of what we need now. I just hope in the long run he can manage the athletic aspect well (raise level of competition, keep us relevant)

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

love the hire....even though hes a uconn huskie.

[Mama_Bull]

New Big East Commish

MICHAEL L. ARESCO

(Executive Vice President, Programming)

CBS Sports

Michael L. Aresco was named Executive Vice President, Programming in

June 2008 after having been Senior Vice President, Programming, since

2000. In his new expanded role, Aresco is responsible for all college

programming for both CBS Sports and CBS College Sports Network. He also

continues to help shape the strategy for growing CBS College Sports

Network.

Aresco joined CBS Sports as Vice President, Programming, in August 1996

and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2000. He is responsible

for managing the division's college sports properties, including

contract negotiations and future acquisitions for the NCAA Men's

Basketball Championship, regular season college basketball and football,

and bowl games. He is also responsible for administering the Network's

various NCAA properties including internet, marketing, radio, licensing,

publishing and outdoor programming.

Aresco was instrumental in the CBS Television Network's landmark

agreement with the NCAA granting CBS exclusive rights to the NCAA Men's

Basketball Championship through 2013. He also played a key role in

negotiating the marketing agreement that coincided with the NCAA deal,

and in the evolution and development of various new media platforms for

the NCAA Tournament, including March Madness on Demand (MMOD), CBS's

highly successful Tournament streaming platform, and Video on Demand

(VOD) applications. Aresco has also negotiated several agreements with

DirecTV to show NCAA Tournament games on an out-of-market basis. He has

played an active role in coordinating CBS content with CBS College

Sports Network's various video streaming packages, and also authored a

high school sports initiative that led to CBS's purchase of MaxPreps,

the leading website devoted to high school sports.

In addition, Aresco recently negotiated the Network's historic 15-year

Southeastern Conference agreement to televise SEC football and

basketball. This agreement also provides multiple new media rights for

CBS, CBS College Sports Network and CBS Interactive. He has reached

several agreements with the Big Ten Conference for college basketball as

well as Big Ten product for CBS College Sports Network. Aresco also

reached a multi-year agreement that expanded CBS Sports' Atlantic Coast

Conference (ACC) basketball coverage and has negotiated several

basketball deals with the Big East, Pac 10 (through Fox Sports Network)

and the Big 12 (through ESPN Regional). He also reached multi-year

agreements granting CBS exclusive rights to televise the Army-Navy and

Notre Dame-Navy football games, as well as the Sun and Gator Bowls. He

recently negotiated a 10-year extension to CBS's Army-Navy football game

agreement and was instrumental in the Academies' decision to move the

game a week later where it will be the concluding game of the college

football regular season. He also recently negotiated an extension of

CBS's Notre Dame-Navy football game agreement through 2016 with an

option through 2018 and assisted in negotiating the CBS College Sports

Network-Navy football agreement through 2018.

In 2005, CBS acquired CSTV, an independent cable sports network. In

January 2008, CBS Sports began to integrate CSTV's operations with its

own and, in March 2008, CSTV became the CBS College Sports Network.

Aresco oversees the CBS College Sports Network's programming department,

spearheading program planning and development, as well as working with

conference rights holders on contract negotiations and future

acquisitions. He sits on the Board of the mtn., the Denver-based

regional sports network devoted to the Mountain West Conference and

jointly owned by CBS and Comcast.

In 2004, he was appointed by NCAA President Myles Brand to the

Basketball Partnership, a select panel whose mission is to explore ways

to improve and promote college basketball. Other members include Duke

basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and

former Big East Commissioner Dave Gavitt.

He has been a guest lecturer at the Tisch Center for Sports Management

at NYU and a guest speaker at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

and the University of Tennessee School Of Business. He has appeared

regularly on panels at the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate

Athletics Forum, and has been a panelist at Practicing Law Institute and

National Sports Marketing Network seminars. He has addressed the

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the National

Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. Aresco has

been a frequent delegate to the Spruce Meadows Changing Fortunes Round

Table, an annual gathering of prominent worldwide business leaders in

Calgary, Canada. He is a charter member of the Steering Committee of

the Columbia University / New York City Chapter of the National Football

Foundation.

Aresco joined CBS Sports from ESPN where he was responsible for

overseeing the acquisition, scheduling and development of long-term

strategies for all of ESPN and ESPN2's college sports properties.

Aresco also was responsible for programming a wide variety of sports

properties, including college football, ATP and Davis Cup tennis,

boxing, the Racing Across America Series, rodeo and yachting. He was

the architect of ESPN's Thursday night college football series and was

instrumental in developing "Bowl Week." He joined ESPN in 1984 and was

named Assistant General Counsel in 1988 before moving to the ESPN

programming department.

Aresco is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts College (B.A., magna cum

laude, history); the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts

(M.A., international relations), where he held a John Moors Cabot

Fellowship, and the University of Connecticut Law School (J.D.). He

served as a foreign relations staff intern in the office of former U.S.

Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan. In 2003, he was the recipient of

the All-American Football Foundation's Outstanding Television Sports

Executive Award. In 2007, he was honored as the Middlesex (CT) County

Chamber of Commerce Role Model of the Year with an accompanying citation

from the Connecticut General Assembly. He was born in Middletown, CT

and lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife, Sharon and their son, Brett.

Another son, Matthew, formerly a producer for the Versus Cable

Television Network, recently established his own independent production

company.

http://www.cbssports.com/cbssports/team/maresco